# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/travis-kalanick
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:13:02.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/travis-kalanick"
name: "Travis Kalanick"
slug: "travis-kalanick"
description: "Travis Cordell Kalanick is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber. Previously he worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application company, and was the co-founder of Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer content delivery network that was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. He is currently CEO of Atoms, which owns CloudKitchens, operator of ghost kitchens."
tagline: "American entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Travis_Kalanick_at_DLD_Munich_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1976-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.54125066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
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    handle:    "travisk"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/traviskal/"
    handle:    "traviskal"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Travis%20Kalanick"
    handle:    "Travis Kalanick"
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    title: "트래비스 캘러닉"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump